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Lusitanian Illusion
1 hour 5 minutes2010-04-22
6.4
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Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.
Cast
![António de Oliveira Salazar](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//aT7uDuxpb1r3Yw2bTYZO2DRztlq.jpg)
António de Oliveira Salazar
Self (archive footage)
![Américo Tomás](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//6CBtp3xnc9HQDIkWHiJwAIZh2tC.jpg)
Américo Tomás
Self - President of the Republic (archive footage)
![Hanna Schygulla](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//fxH98JLkAYB2vSpo7bT5OHhoQ42.jpg)
Hanna Schygulla
Erika Mann (voice)
![Rüdiger Vogler](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//8q5HOiqdWC2Y23IHjnOnsTeUBX8.jpg)
Rüdiger Vogler
Alfred Döblin (voice)
![Christian Patey](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//t2iZpfO1x7t4vat73CZYtFRHCkH.jpg)
Christian Patey
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (voice)
![Annabella](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//gsuec04s5ymZrvvzCSWkxngl7pF.jpg)
Annabella
Self (archive footage)
![Danielle Darrieux](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//kEwF3yXrscdH5vLUt4xAvsmnEKI.jpg)
Danielle Darrieux
Self (archive footage)
![Louis Jouvet](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//7QQ8sgOVDHxm2RNnLi7Uaplrtju.jpg)
Louis Jouvet
Self (archive footage)
![Robert Montgomery](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//o2H1yxVxbxlTWP1PZDFXv6oxiFj.jpg)
Robert Montgomery
Self (archive footage)
![Madeleine Ozeray](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//iX18GPqK0IbRPwn5BPTAlqSgRW8.jpg)
Madeleine Ozeray
Self (archive footage)
![António Lopes Ribeiro](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//aziF90Jhp2WrdyPGkdujkZQrt4s.jpg)
António Lopes Ribeiro
Self (archive footage)
![Tyrone Power](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//sHiIUmasHuY8avM3yasQsL3wSKm.jpg)
Tyrone Power
Self (archive footage)
![Simone Simon](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//oo0bjmSaITHbqhAeGObHlCr5mTX.jpg)